On March 19, Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, led the introduction of the EAT Local Foods Act of 2024 alongside twelve co-sponsors and with 184 endorsements from organizations, farms, and businesses from across the country. The bill seeks to sustain the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program, which launched in 2021 as one of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) initiatives to transform the food system and build resilient regional supply chains.

“If the program continues beyond 2025, I think that local farmers and local processors will grow into a stronger network. Plus, the people that are benefitting from Ohio CAN (Community + Agriculture + Nutrition) and LFPA will continue to have access to the local food they need for themselves, as a business and for the people that are eating it,” said

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